main program

the Avantgarde:
The Russian Schizorevolution: an exhibition that might have been

28 february – 31 may 2009

Curators: Marta Volkova and Slava Shevelenko
Artists: Lena Borsh, Sergei Bugaev (Afrika), Vita Buivid, T. Ebruoc, Denis Egelsky, Andrei Khlobystin, M. Killer, Evgeny Kondratiev, Oleg Kotelnikov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Timur Novikov, Vadim Ovtchinnikov, Inal Savtchenkov, Slava Shevelenko, Ivan Sotnikov, Marta Volkova, en Oleg Zaika. more

the Avantgarde:
Depression

19 september – 29 november 2009

Curators: Lisette Smits and Dan Kidner
Artists: Alighiero e Boetti, Nairy Baghramian, Gillian Carnegie, Stephan Dillemuth, Chris Evans, Claire Fontaine, Melanie Gilligan, Karl Holmqvist, Anja Kirschner and David Panos, Lee Lozano, Alan Michael, Melvin Moti, Seth Price, Jim Shaw, Barbara Visser, Joanne Tatham and Tom O'Sullivan more

the Avantgarde:
We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope. Ettore Sottsass: works from Stockholm, 1969

12 december 2009 – 13 february 2010

Curators: Lisette Smits and Guus Beumer more

the Avantgarde:
The Cell That Doesn't Believe In The Mind That It's Part Of

27 june – 12 september 2010

Curator: Lisette Smits
Artist: Chris Evans more

the Avantgarde:
Hygiene, the story of a museum

24 october 2010 – 30 january 2011

Curators: Guus Beumer and Claudia Banz
In cooperation with EventArchitectuur more

the Avantgarde:
Madame Realism

12 march – 05 june 2011

Curator: Lisette Smits
Artists: Eva Berendes, Ruth Buchanan, Bonnie Camplin, Melissa Gordon, Pernille Kapper Williams, Annette Kelm, Kitty Kraus, Janette Laverrière, Linder, Hanne Lippard, Michaela Meise, Josephine Pryde, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Clare Stephenson, Lina Viste Grønli, Jessica Warboys and Amelie von Wulffen. more

the Avantgarde:
Specters of the Nineties

10 september 2011 – 15 january 2012

Curators: Lisette Smits and Matthieu Laurette
Artists: Art Club 2000, Sadie Benning, Bernadette Corporation, Plamen Dejanov & Swetlana Heger, Jeremy Deller, Stephan Dillemuth and Hans-Christian Dany, Maria Eichhorn, Annika Eriksson, Andrea Fraser, Rainer Ganahl, Renée Green, Jens Haaning, Pierre Huyghe, Karen Kilimnik, Ben Kinmont, Job Koelewijn, Renée Kool, Aleksandra Mir, Regina Müller, N55, Marylène Negro-Klaus Scherübel, Laurie Parsons, Asier Pérez, Dan Peterman, Hinrich Sachs, Joe Scanlan, Tilo Schulz, Superflex, Apolonija Sustersic, Barbara Visser, Carey Young. more

the Avantgarde:
Deep Cuts

24 november 2012 – 17 february 2013

Curator: Lisette Smits
Artists: Art & Language with Red Krayola, Bonnie Camplin, Jason Coburn, Paul Elliman, Scott Joseph, Nicholas Matranga, Michaela Meise, Michele Di Menna, Jochen Schmith, Benjamin Seror, Lucie Stahl, Holger Steen and Will Holder more

parallel program

the Avantgarde:
Made In Europe Filmfestival - Sven Augustijnen

26 – 29 march 2009

Artist: Sven Augustijnen more

the Avantgarde:
Depression Films

28 october – 25 november 2009

Filmprogram at Lumière more

the Avantgarde:
Lecture Brian Dillon

31 october 2009

Lecture by Brian Dillon followed by a talk with Dieter Roelstraete more

the Avantgarde:
Filmvertoning Rock My Religion

07 february 2010

In the context of the exhibition We Were Exuberant and Still Had Hope: Ettore Sottsass, works from Stockholm, 1969, a filmscreening of Dan Graham's Rock My Religion (55 min.) will take place on Sunday, February 7 at 4 pm. more

the Avantgarde:
Cop Talk

20 may 2010

Curator: Lisette Smits
Artist: Chris Evans
In cooperation with the Academie for Visual Arts Maastricht more

the Avantgarde:
Filmvertoning La Collectionneuse

12 september 2010

On the occasion of the last day of the exhibition The Cell That Doesn't Believe In The Mind That It's Part Of, Marres shows a screening of the film La Collectionneuse van Éric Rohmer. more

the Avantgarde:
An afternoon with...

15 – 22 may 2011

An afternoon with Lynne Tillman, Bonnie Camplin, Lili Renaud-Dewar and Hanne Lippard. more

the Avantgarde:
Specters of the Nineties

12 november 2011

Artist: Hinrich Sachs more

the Avantgarde:
Deep Cuts

15 december 2012 – 19 february 2013

Parallel to the exhibition Deep Cuts, an event programme takes place with lectures, film screenings and concerts by Luke Fowler, Dan Graham, Jason Coburn, Will Holder, Noëllie Roussel, Paul Elliman, Michaela Meise, Holger Steen and Benjamin Seror. more

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Can death, decay and blood indeed be so beautiful, almost seductive? 
Consumerist excess and the fiction of economic speculation
Create or destroy
Every bird can only sing what it is able to hear
Health as common good and social capital
How to deal with this new reality?
is the idea of a school still grounded in the locality of a physical environment?
The ultimate symbol of godlessness
Trust me - I'm a designer
We'll be rich tonight!
Without a palace of glass, life is a burden